With regard to the contributions made by the community, themselves far from being wealthy' and toiling hard to earn their dally bread, Mr. Gutterres quoted the words of the Yale Dr. Amanda Navarro that "what today we would call the statutes of the Order of Christ, our king Dom Diniz, its founder, gave us one of its objective National Expansion. Nowadays, there are various ways of attaining national expansion, but in those remote ages, it constituted chiefly in strength by conquest, the sole form which ensured the diffusion of, national influences.
National expansion was nearly always the extension of physical frontiers, In modern times, through the evolution of human institutions, of which the Order of Christ was one fof the mest active and powerful fac~ tors, and through the universal consequences of the maritime discoveries of the Portuguese, achievements were made possible under its aegis. The Srradiation of nations stretches itself into the mortal and spiritual world, traversing frontiers without oliminating them, by the peaceful infiltration of their capacity for work or culture.
"Although the Portuguese community," he continued, "cannot boast fof great wealth and oven though it thas not raised great edifices, it cannot be judged to have sunk so low that the traditions of its origin are all faded, Such os it Is, the Portuguese community of Shanghai, contributes to_ national expansion.
"Mr. Francisco Anacleto da Silva, ex-senator for Macao, when he frst appeared in the Parliament of the Republic, declared that Macao, although a'pioce of Portuguese territory the most distant of all the colonies from the Mother Country, was doubtedly the most patriotic and the most loyal. "So did D, Joao VI judge Ht-when he conferred the title "{City of the Gioly Name of God in China—None More Loyall' upon
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